A Conversation with Michaela Horvathova
In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson is joined by Michaela Horvathova, founder of Beyond Education and former policy analyst at the OECD.
For more than a decade, Michaela has worked on an important and misunderstood challenge in education: how to define, develop, and assess metacognition and soft skills.
As AI makes knowledge abundant and easily accessible, these competencies are becoming essential. Yet across most education systems, they remain poorly defined, inconsistently taught, and rarely measured.
We also discuss how schools can move toward competency-based models, drawing on Michaela’s work at Beyond International School.
The challenge is not just to talk about soft skills, but to define them clearly, prioritize them, and measure them in ways that truly reflect how humans learn.